Cybersecurity

Facts & Figures

• 70% of K-12 students in the U.S. are participating in part-time or full-time distance learning, due to the global pandemic.

• 90% of cybersecurity attacks start with phishing - the practice of sending emails that look official or legitimate to trick users into sharing personal information or clicking on links to install malware to damage computers, steal information from computers, etc.

• 61% of nearly 7.7 million enterprise malware encounters reported in the past month came from those in the education sector, making it the most affected industry, according to a June 2020 Microsoft Security Intelligence report .

• More than 90% of malware is delivered via email.

• About 24,000 malicious mobile apps are blocked every day.

• 95% of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error.

• 160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised per day.

• There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds.

• It can take companies nearly 6 months to detect a data breach.